Word: fulbrights
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Everett House's head resident, Dorothy J. Burton, yesterday won a Fulbright scholarship for study at the University of Oslo, Norway. Miss Burton, who received her M.A. degree from Radcliffe, has been working on her doctorate in American History while taking charge of the Annex cooperative house...
...education societies. Under Zook, the council also became a strong bridge between U.S. educational institutions and the U.S. Government, had one of the most respected independent voices in all U.S. education policymaking. Two measures that had strong A.C.E. support: the Mead bill for G.I. student housing and the Fulbright bill for overseas scholarships...
Should the Reconstruction Finance Corp. be abolished? Arkansas Democrat J. William Fulbright, whose Senate banking subcommittee is now investigating RFC (TIME, April 24), last week found somebody who thinks so: Texas Banker Jesse H. Jones, head of RFC for 13 years after the agency was first...
Rushing In. Under the circumstances, why had RFC approved the loan? Senator Fulbright put RFChairman Hise on the stand to find out, but got little satisfaction. "I don't think I want to attempt to justify this particular loan," said Hise, slouching in his chair. "I have heard nothing to indicate it was a bad loan." Besides, he added, there was "no reason to hold up the disbursement." In fact, his staff lawyers thought it might be illegal for RFC not to go through with its loan commitment. RFC was firmly of the opinion that with more capital Texmass...
...months, Arkansas Democrat William J. Fulbright has been gathering evidence for a full-scale investigation of RFC by his Senate banking subcommittee. Last week, as his committee began hearings, it looked as though he had struck pay dirt at the first swing of his pick. The case was that of the Texmass Petroleum Co., an oil outfit which got authorization for a $10,100,000 loan from RFC in 1949. The money has not yet been paid out and Senator Fulbright hoped he could prevent its ever being drawn...